Sort posts by year and alphabetically

1. Use get_posts to get latest post date and year of that post
2. Use get_posts to get oldest post date and year of that post
3. Iterate through those dates latest to oldest (or oldest to latest)
3a. Use new WP_query loop to get posts for that year, sorted by title

Hi Michael, thanks for the answer! Do you mind to show me an example of the code? I’m not really a programmer, what do you mean by “iterate”? Thanks again

<?php
$args=array(
    'orderby' => 'date',
    'order' => 'ASC',
    'posts_per_page' => 1,
    'caller_get_posts'=>1
);
$oldestpost =  get_posts($args);

$args=array(
    'orderby' => 'date',
    'order' => 'DESC',
    'posts_per_page' => 1,
    'caller_get_posts'=>1
);
$newestpost =  get_posts($args);

if ( !empty($oldestpost) && !empty($newestpost) ) {
  $oldest = mysql2date("Y", $oldestpost[0]->post_date);
  $newest = mysql2date("Y", $newestpost[0]->post_date);

  for ( $counter = intval($oldest); $counter <= intval($newest); $counter += 1) {

    $args=array(
      'year'     => $counter,
      'posts_per_page' => -1,
      'orderby' => 'title',
      'order' => 'ASC',
      'caller_get_posts'=>1
    );

    $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
    if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
      echo '<h2>Posts for ' . $counter . '</h2>';
      while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
        <p><small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?></small> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
       <?php
        //the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;');
      endwhile;
    } //if ($my_query)
  wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
  }
}
?>

And please, no question on pagination ??

Hi Michael. The code worked perfectly. Thank you again!

Thank you for the code, it is very helpful! Just one question, when the “POSTS” post to the page, 2008 appears before 2010 going down the page. How do I flip these two, ive been messing with you code and cant seem to come up with the proper solution. Thanks!

Never mind I created a new solution that will start with the newest year.
Replace:

for ( $counter = intval($oldest); $counter <= intval($newest); $counter += 1)

With:

for ( $counter = intval($newest); $counter >= intval($oldest); $counter = $counter – 1)

Thank you for your work, it is greatly appreciated.